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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:59:23 +1100
Subject: Re: Python is readable
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Steve Howell <showell30@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On the one hand, you say that "push(stack, item)" reads quite
> differently from "stack.push(item)".
>
> On the other hand, you say they are "so close to identical as makes no
> odds."
>
> I'm trying to make sense of that. =A0Are you saying that the way the two
> idioms read makes no odds, despite reading quite differently?

If you're designing a language (or, often, a library/module), you can
choose either option without greatly annoying your users. As a
programmer, I use both types of API all the time. Yes, they read
differently, but neither is confusing, and you can easily grok that
they do the same thing.

ChrisA